Reinkaos (stylised as REINKAΩS) is the third and final studio album by Swedish extreme metal band Dissection. It was released through the band's own label Black Horizon Music, which they had formed "out of the need of taking charge of our own business and making things our own way, without compromise".Interview for the Fans by the Fans. Final Interview with Jon Nödtveidt, accessed on 25 May 2013. Reinkaos is also available as autographed limited first edition: CD packed in exclusive embossed slipcase, limited to 1,001 hand-numbered copies signed by the band members; including the music video for "Starless Aeon" and a sticker.
Musical style and lyrics The album is less influenced by traditional black metal and closer to Gothenburg metal or traditional heavy metalDissection. ReinkaΩs. In: Metal Hammer, July 2006, p. 100. than Dissection's former albums, but, according to Decibel journalist Chris D., still "very much Nödtveidt and very much Dissection".Chris D.: Justify Your Shitty Taste – Dissection's "Reinkaos" , 13 April 2011, accessed on 25 May 2013. The lyrics reflect the occult tenets of the Misanthropic Luciferian Order (MLO) and are "based on invocations and formulas that have been linked into the lyrics to evoke the powers that they represent. Occult musical theory has been applied in the song writing process as a means of symbolically charging their structures. They have also been written inspired by scientific ideas such as string theory. The songs have all been written with the intention of using sounds and vibrations as an Anti-Cosmic tool and they have all been consciously created to be the vessels for these powers." In the grimoire Liber Azerate, released by the MLO, reinchaos is defined as "the return to chaos and acausal existence." (in Swedish)
Track listing
Personnel Jon Nödtveidt − vocals, guitars Set Teitan − guitars, backing vocals Tomas Asklund − drums
Guest appearances Brice Leclercq − bass Additional vocals on "Maha Kali" by Nyx 218 Additional backing vocals by Erik Danielsson and Whiplasher Bernadotte
Charts + Chart performance for Reinkaos Chart (2026) Peakposition Swedish Physical Albums (Sverigetopplistan) 8
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